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Or check out the list below for information on the Joan Miró Foundation, the Tàpiés Foundation, the City History Museum and the Barbier-Mueller Pre-Colombian Art Museum.
The Joan Miró Foundation houses the most exhaustive singular collection of this Catalan artist's works. From signature tapestries to a serene sculpture garden, you'll observe Miró's interest in the diversity of colors, materials and forms. If you're exploring the hill of Montjuïc, your day would be incomplete without a trip to this spacious, luminous Barcelona museum.
Among the top 3 Barcelona museums name for a single artist (Picasso, Miró, Tàpies), this foundation is housed in an important early modernista building by Domènech i Montaner. Though constructed in 1885, Tàpies inaugurated the building as a museum in his name in 1984 to promote contemporary art. This experimental Catalan artist - second only to Miró among regional 20th century masters - donated a large portions of his works, which lay side by side other contemporary artists.
Though city history museums are normally relegated to a lower status than high art museums, Barcelona's defies the norm. Located in the heart of the Gothic Quarter in the 16th Century "Grand Noble Palace," the Barcelona City History Museum is the best place to get a glimpse of ancient Barcelona. The building's layout essentially allows you to take a walk through Visigothic and Roman Barcelona, with towers, sections of walls, baths and streets. It's a surprisingly intriguing and fascinating look at the many civilizations who've passed through Barcelona.
The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Colombian Art hods one of the world's most prestigious collections of sculptures, textiles and other artifacts from Meso-America, Central America, Andean America, and the Amazon region.
